Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...
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New Cross Songwriters Circle

Jul

25

2025

The indefatigable Martin Howard is doing more than most in keeping the flame of acoustic live music going in SE London, promoting the long running Acoustic Anarchy nights at waterintobeer in Brockley, helping with Deptford Folk at the Endeavour bar and in the latest move putting on a monthly night upstairs at the Shirkers Rest SE14. ...
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New Cross Songwriters Circle · Shirkers Rest · Transpontine

The Torch of Anarchy: 1890s meetings in Southwark Park

Jul

12

2025

The Torch - sometimes known as The Torch of Anarchy - was an 1890s anarchist communist journal started by Olivia, Arthur and Helen Rossetti,  three young siblings from an artistic family (the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti was their uncle and the poet Christina Rossetti their aunt)An issue from 1895 (April 18th) mentions that 'An Anarchist-Communist ...
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1890s · Anarchists/Socialists/Assorted Radicals · Bermondsey · Deptford · Southwark Park · Transpontine

Music Monday: Kae Tempest ‘Sunshine on Catford

Jul

6

2025

Loving the new Kae Tempest album, Self-Titled, from a transpontine perspective the track 'Sunshine on Catford' in particular, which features Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.
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Catford · Kae Tempest · Music Monday · Transpontine